Boone-Douthit House · Photo: Bill Fitzpatrick · CC BY-SA 3.0A job hub: Sandy Springs has 7.2 jobs per working resident, and 2,937 people come in to work
Sandy Springs grades C for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Employers in Sandy Springs report 2,958 jobs, and 411 of its residents work somewhere. Only 5% work in Sandy Springs; the top destination outside it is Anderson (13%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Sandy Springs
Sandy Springs fills up on a workday
Sandy Springs has 2,958 jobs, 7.2 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 3,700 people are in town, 3 times the 1,100 who live here. Day and night ↓
Sandy Springs makes and builds things
73% of the jobs based in Sandy Springs are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Sandy Springs residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 21%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Sandy Springs are quick
The average trip to work takes 16 minutes, against 26 across South Carolina. That’s about 77 hours a year less on the road than the typical South Carolina worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 411 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Sandy Springs: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Sandy Springs is better than 26% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Sandy Springs’ grade up (ahead of 54% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (32.7%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (5.6%) is left out: Sandy Springs’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Sandy Springs could be anywhere from D to B−.
The daily flow of workers through Sandy Springs
On a workday 390 residents head out to work and 21 work right here.
About 3,700 people are in Sandy Springs on a workday afternoon, 230% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Making and building: 73% of jobs based in Sandy Springs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sandy Springs, 2014 → 2024: 104 → 2,958. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Sandy Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Sandy Springs takes about 16 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sandy Springs workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 443 commuters (the 6% who work from home are left out). Across South Carolina: 86% drive alone, <1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
The daily trip into Sandy Springs
Where Sandy Springs clocks in
13% of workers
10% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Sandy Springs
About 17% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Getting around Sandy Springs: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Sandy Springs is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 2.4% across South Carolina.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 472 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 80% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.6% of Sandy Springs households have no vehicle (South Carolina 5.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sandy Springs’ commuters take a bus or train.
Sandy Springs next to U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500: 2,288th of 3,771 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 531 | Shell Point SC | 1,439 | $82K | 3.1% | 6.4% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 873 | Meggett SC | 1,484 | $98K | 11.0% | 2.0% | 6% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,069 | Edisto Beach SC | 1,071 | $86K | 2.5% | 5.8% | 9% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,286 | Cumberland Valley Township PA | 1,441 | $67K | 8.6% | 0.0% | 1% | C |
| 2,287 | Cross Creek Township PA | 1,358 | $68K | 16.4% | 12.2% | 4% | C |
| 2,288 | Sandy Springs SC | 1,105 | $71K | 32.7% | 5.6% | 5% | C |
| 2,289 | Eden Valley MN | 1,062 | $68K | 12.5% | 0.0% | 5% | C |
| 2,290 | Dahlgren Township IL | 1,124 | $67K | 9.4% | 11.1% | 7% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Sandy Springs, the top three, the last and three more from South Carolina.
Sandy Springs and its neighbors
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Sandy Springs workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandy Springs | – | C | C+ | 16 min | $70,833 |
| La France | under 1% | — | — | 28 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. La France: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Sandy Springs’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Sandy Springs: questions
What is the median household income in Sandy Springs?
$70,833 (±$16,605) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sandy Springs?
32.7%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sandy Springs?
16 minutes each way on average, against 26 across South Carolina and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sandy Springs work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Anderson (13%, 8 mi), Greenville (10%, 27 mi), Clemson (7%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Sandy Springs walkable?
Sandy Springs is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 9.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sandy Springs without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sandy Springs, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sandy Springs
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.